This was attached to an announcement for an even that is too late to pass on, but I thought the statistics were interesting to pass on. << *A quarter of the world is Muslim *There are 170,000,000 Muslims in Indonesia *There are 70,000,000 Muslims in China *There are 54,000,000 in the former Soviet Union *By the year 2020, the world's Muslim population will be 2.5 billion *In Canada, one in every three children are born to Muslim families *Over 40% of the worlds vital mineral's are in Muslim countries *Muslim countries have been credited with having some of the best and brightest minds >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------